Obama’s SXSW Speech Underscores Encryption Uncertainties
Technology and politics are two of the most complex sectors in the national economy. Huge portions of the population can’t tell you what an electoral college is, or even name the mayor of their town. Outside the community of iPhone app developers — of which their are not nearly enough to meet demand — the […]
SXSW Interactive 2016 Wrap-up: Emerging Tech & Mobile Trends
SXSW Interactive has an uncanny knack for guessing what’s next in tech. Ever since Twitter caught on like wildfire at the 2007 gathering, throngs of iPhone app developers have migrated south each year to get in on the ground floor of the latest tech innovations. (And consume a lot of craft beer and Texas BBQ.) The […]
What Makes Startups Different From “Normal” Businesses?
First-time entrepreneurs and iPhone app developers often want to know what exactly makes startups different from regular businesses. Especially for those with backgrounds in “traditional” business growth, the differences can be confusing. It may surprise you to hear that the answer isn’t simply that startups are more tech-based than regular businesses. Although most startups do […]
Will 2016 Be the Golden Age of FinTech App Development?
The Lending Club IPO in 2014 marked the beginning of a Renaissance for FinTech app developers, with financial app services launching with ever-greater frequency (and ever-larger funding). Today, FinTech app startups like Mint and Robinhood are disrupting the personal finance and stock trading industries respectively, leading developers to wonder: how much more room for growth […]
The Power of Detail in Mobile App Interface Design
The bar is high for custom mobile app developers in 2015, with over 1,000 released every day in the Apple App Store alone. Mobile app development companies have to create better products than ever before if they hope to stand out — that applies to mobile games, education startups, and even FinTech app developers. Differentiating […]
4 Mobile App Metrics your Startup Needs to Know
Developing a high-quality iPhone app is just the beginning of the battle; once your iPhone app hits the Apple App Store, fine-tuning the product management side of your startup becomes the name of the game. For design-minded iPhone app developers, this is easily the hardest part of the growth process. How do you know if […]
Ninety-Nine Problems: the Psychology of Mobile App Pricing
Scroll through the Apple App Store or Google Play and you’ll quickly notice that 99% of the top apps have something very conspicuous in common; they’re all priced in 99 cent increments. You don’t have to be a mathematician or iPhone app developer to notice that something’s afoot. While freemium pricing is undeniably on the […]
IPhone App Developers Sign Petition to Return F.lux to iOS
Apple set itself at odds with the iPhone app development community the past couple weeks with an unexpected ban of the F.lux app — suspiciously timed with the release of native F.lux-like functionality to iOS 9.3. Quick recap: F.lux is a third-party app for iOS devices that reduces the blue light emitted from backlit screens […]
Vine Founder Launches Peach, a Social Network iPhone App
Dom Hofmann, founder of the wildly successful video-sharing iPhone app Vine, has been back in the news the past couple weeks drumming up buzz for a new social networking startup. Peach is an iPhone app developed to capitalize on the success of uber-simple sharing apps like Ello by applying an equally simple mobile messaging interface. […]
Service, the Customer Intermediary App, Launches for iOS
User retention is notoriously difficult in the iOS app industry, where over 80 percent of users open an app once and never come back. So the claim from newly-launched customer service iOS app Service that their user retention hovers over 25 percent is understandably turning heads among New York iPhone app development companies, and drawing […]